The National Science Foundation Board's 2018 Report of Indicators
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/report As most of the data sets seem to end in 2016, this report can be a benchmark or watershed mark. The first thing that caught my attention was the...
View ArticleLiquid Modernity
So I wonder where we may find ourselves in 20 years from now. With the passing of social and personal identity, will we become soulless robots? Or will a new identity arise to replace the old, a gypsy...
View ArticleThoughts and prayers
What are your main objections to people offering their thoughts and prayers to tragedy victims? http://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/02...ris-pratt-comments-thoughts-prayers-responds/
View ArticleAction Notes v.1.0
This thread will serve as a Moderator Action Log. It is simply an informational record, and will not be open for general discussion. Questions or comments regarding specific actions should be addressed...
View ArticleDilbert and science - the tech closet door opens
This week Sunday, 5/14, Scott Adams - already famous for not only predicting a Trump win but endorsing him as the best candidate in the large primary field - doubled down: a cartoon promoting AGW...
View ArticleCultural appropriation
https://slate.com/technology/2018/0...acklashes-against-culinary-appropriation.html i think the backlash and claims of cultural appropriation are silly. it doesn't make sense and inconsequential. this...
View ArticleWriting: Why left, right, & vertical?
Some where I read the following. Left to right due to cultures which first wrote on clay or paper with a stylus or pen-like device. A right handed person would not smear previously written data. Right...
View Article21st century neologisms
For example: "recharge anxiety", a condition electric car owners experience when looking for a recharge station. Just saw a story about Sweden or somewhere, where the government is installing charging...
View ArticleIs 'Progress' Good for Humanity?
Does attributing technological advancement to automatic moral advancement sew the seeds to return humanity to the stone age?...
View ArticleInsect free picnic
When I was living with my parents, we often went on picnics. My father always brought a bag of sugar. He made a mound circa 7-10 feet from our picnic area & made trails of sugar extending from that...
View ArticleSocMj-Justice
The people convicted of MJ and other bs crimes like prostitution should be systemically transitioned to bud managers (horticulturalists) and MJ industry specialists and technicians without economic...
View ArticlePro-social behavior and bullshit - some numbers are in
One of the minor mysteries of life is the common observation that assholes get conned more easily than average. They drive on average overpriced, unreliable cars, for example. They buy into pyramid...
View ArticleBest & cheapest is unpopular: It won't be chosen.
All modern cars are by legislation equipped with air bags to protect passengers in the event of a collision. A much cheaper & probably more effective solution is to have passengers ride backwards....
View ArticleSilencing Vitamin D3 and chromium curing type 2 diabetes by oxalic acid...
6 years of silence of the industry because the government, pharmaceutical industry, and collegiate research on the take. People are seriously suffering from vitamin D3 deficiency and insidious oxalic...
View ArticleWhere some of the assets in asset forfeiture ended up
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...ed-operating-flying-cell-tower-spoofers.shtml https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-national-guard-spying-devices-surveillance/ Dirt boxes mimic cellphone towers by...
View ArticleOne step in my plan to industrialize the world called people over resources
How to help South America. We should allow developing nations to harness their own natural resources while respecting others to help industrialize the world I have multiple ideas on how to do this but...
View ArticleA warning from Denmark, to US society, re public scientific research
The Republican Party's successful efforts to defund and otherwise cripple Federal and State research programs, as well as block public access to past findings and data compilations, has sharply reduced...
View ArticleNutraKick Testo Booster *https://awaretalks.com/nutrakick-testo-booster/*
NutraKick Testo Booster While you'll find new corporations which are effective at delivering quality products, trustworthy corporations who have been in the company for a time are almost always more...
View Articlepedophilia
why are there so many people who want to rape and abuse children like this? why do they want to destroy or damage innocence or good? why are there so many abusive people? i have been abused but i...
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